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Re: Light-speed humor (was Re: S6 with dual exhausts...)
Hairy green toads from Mars made Arun Rao say:
> Aha, time to air a physics-geek limerick:
>
> There was a young fencer called Fiske,
> who in his action was exceedingly brisk.
> So fast was his action,
> that the Fitzgerald contraction
> foreshortened his foil to a disk.
>
> OK, I'll shut up now.
To which I'll add the (slight Audi-content) physics-geek riddle:
How fast must you be going to blue-shift a
red light to appear green?
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